Sentence examples for morphological characters have from inspiring English sources

Most of the information available from the fossil material pertains to its morphology and the means to quantify morphological characters have become of great importance.

Recently, a growing body of morphological characters have been identified that may also support a close relationship between flamingoes and grebes [29], [140] [142].

The difficulties in defining characters and their states, and particularly the fact that distinct taxonomists assigned distinct weights to morphological characters, have probably been the largest obstacles to the establishment of broadly acceptable classifications of numerous difficult groups of fungi.

Phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters have not yielded consistent results either, e.g. [ 9, 10].

To date, no diagnostic discrete morphological characters have been identified for populations from the three geographical regions.

In contrast to Petrocosmea actually exhibiting extremely diverse floral variation, few morphological characters have been described in the traditional system with poor subgeneric classification.

In some cases collecting in habitats that have not been well explored reveal hidden diversity; in other cases a failure to recognize significant morphological characters has led to under estimates of diversity.

Such plastic variations in environmentally dependent morphological characters had also been documented in reef corals [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] Coral colonies are made of multiple genetically identical modules (polyps) that are physiologically integrated [16].

Phylogenetic studies have proved that extensive convergence or parallelism of morphological characters has occurred during the evolution of Ganoderma [ 17– 17].

It is evident that the traditional taxonomy of the Ganoderma complex based on morphological characters has long been chaotic, thus limiting its uses [ 12, 13].

Generalized homoplasy in morphological characters has been found in comparison with molecular data designed to test mammalian inter-ordinal relationships (Springer et al., 2007).